Wallace Shawn Quotes
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.
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Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
